Alpha Design Labs ADL-H118 Headphones by Furutech

Alpha Design Labs (ADL) has just expanded its line of superbly designed and manufactured, yet affordable, products with the addition of the ADL-H118 headphones. The key to designing a successful headphone is to identify some of the problems with existing headphones in the market. Headphones are in intimate sonic and physical contact with the listener and reveal problems in the audio chain or the headphones themselves. Too many headphones out there have too much bass, or they’re too bright with a thick, congealed midrange. Most are uncomfortable to wear and ultimately fatiguing.

The headband and over-the-ear transducer shape make the ADL H118 headphones supremely comfortable, an observation everyone makes before suddenly being captured by the sound. The ADL H118 is balanced in a completely audiophile way, in a Furutech fashion. Scintillating tonal colours and textures, intimate and close harmonic interplay, a sense of space and quiet backgrounds, the resonance of music itself creates an involving emotional experience when you’re this close to the music.

Pair H118s with Alpha Design Labs Esprit and GT40 USB DAC/Preamplifiers or the Stride and Cruise Portable Headphone Amplifiers, or any other quality headphone playback system and become intimate with your music.